31.12.14

For Russia War Is Now a Grim Reality. West a Bitter Rival

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New Russia military doctrine spells out which countries are Russia's allies, partners and sources of military threats

By Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow Center)

The text below is a brief overview of new Russia military
doctrine, signed into law by the Russian president on December 26th,
2014.This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared at Moscow Carnegie Center

Essentially,
for Commander-in-Chief Putin and for his generals, admirals, and
security officials, war in 2014 ceased to be a risk and turned into grim
reality.. Russia has had to use its military forces in Ukraine, arguably the most important neighbor it has in Europe.. The
conflict over Ukraine, in Moscow’s view, reflects the fundamental
reality of an “intensification of global competition” and the “rivalry
of value orientations and models of development.” Against the background
of economic and political instability—crises and popular movements—the
global balance is changing in favor of emerging power centers.. In
this new environment, the doctrine highlights information warfare and
outside interference in Russia’s domestic politics as risks of increased
importance.. The list of main external risks has not changed much, but the nuances are important.. As
in the past, top of the table is NATO-related issues: its enhanced
capabilities, global reach and enlargement, which brings alliance
infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders.. After the risk of NATO
comes the risk of destabilization of countries and regions, which can be
taken to mean Libya, Syria and Ukraine, and foreign force deployments
close to Russia, which presumably refers to additional NATO aircraft in
the Baltic States, BMD assets in Romania, and naval ships in the Black
Sea.. The top portion of the list of risks contains references to
U.S. strategic ballistic missile defense, its Global Strike concept, and
strategic non-nuclear systems. . The doctrine elaborates on Russia’s relationships with its allies, partners and other countries.It singles out Belarus as Moscow’s closest ally, whose armed forces are practically integrated with Russia’s.

This situation explains the Kremlin’s tolerance for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s undisguised blackmail of Russia.. The
next category is the members of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
and Tajikistan, which have agreed to coordinate their policies and have
formed rapid reaction forces for various contingencies—mainly in
Central Asia, with a view toward countering risks coming out of
Afghanistan (a cause of rising common concern).. In December, Putin
welcomed CSTO leaders to the new National Defense Control Center in
Moscow and invited their countries to join the center.. In the Caucasus, the Russian republic of Chechnya has emerged as Moscow’s security stronghold and a paramilitary resource. Also, under a treaty concluded in November, Abkhazia
has merged its forces with Russia’s. South Ossetia is de facto a
Russian military protectorate. This completes Russia’s defense perimeter
as of late 2014.. Even though President Putin continues to make
tongue in cheek reference to the United States and its NATO allies as
“partners,” the military doctrine is blunter on the issue.Only
countries deemed to be friendly to Moscow are labeled partners: members
of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (China and Central Asia) and
the BRICS group.. Placing
China in the SCO context, the doctrine proposes to “coordinate efforts
to deal with military risks in the common space.” This, of course, falls
far short of any form of military alliance with Beijing.. Despite the public debate, the Russian doctrine makes no change to the principles of using nuclear weapons.. As
before, Russia will retaliate against a nuclear/WMD attack against
itself and/or its allies; and it will also go nuclear if an existential
threat is posed by a conventional attack.. The new iteration of
Russia’s military doctrine makes it clear that even if the West is not
officially an adversary, it is a powerful competitor, a bitter rival,
and the source of most military risks and threats.. Even faced with a coming recession, upgrading defense capabilities and force readiness remain Russia’s clear priority.. Russia
is also strengthening integration and cooperation with its several
allies and partners in Eurasia, even as military contacts with the West
are downgraded to Cold War levels.. A watershed has been passed.Dmitri Trenin is director of Moscow Carnegie Center. He
retired from the Russian Army in 1993. From 1993–1997 he held a post as
a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe in Moscow. In 1993,
he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome.

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.By the Saker blog
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is amazing for me to see that most observers and analysts have
apparently failed to realize that China is now a key actor in the
Ukrainian war. Anybody doubting this claim should read the Vineyard of the Saker White Paper written by Larchmonter 445 entitled The Russia-China Double Helix.
To make a long story short, China and Russia have decided to keep their
own "hands" (their armed forces) and their own "heads" (their political
leadership) but to share a common "torso" (their economies, natural and
human resources, their industrial and technological know-how and
everything else which allows a society to prosper). I call this the
Russia-China Strategic Alliance (RCSA) but really it is something even
bigger then that - it is a long term decision to share a common fate and
to take the risk to become inseparable. An alliance, a treaty, can be
broken or withdrawn from. But once your "internal organs" are shared
with another entity you are bound together, for better or for worse.
What has happened is truly a tectonic geopolitical shift: two empires
have decided to join together while remaining sovereign and
independent. To my knowledge this has never happened in history and
Putin and Xi have already changed the course of history by this
monumental decision..The
two countries are ideal symbionts: everything one has the other needs
and vice versa. China needs Russian raw materials, especially energy,
Russian high technology (aerospace, engines, power plants, etc.) and
Russian armaments (everything from the rifle bullet to the ICBM).
Russia needs two things from China: money and "Walmart" (consumer
goods). Together these two giants not only have immense currency
resources but the biggest stash of physical gold on the planet. And, to
make things even better, Russia and China are the undisputed leaders of
BRICS and SCO. Taken together these two countries are already far more powerful than the AngloZionist Empire and that trend will only grow.

A Russian, a Russian Asian and a Chinese solider

Of
course, China will not intervene militarily in the Ukraine. Remember -
each country keeps its own "hands" so long as the other is not directly
threatened. But in the Pacific Russian and Chinese navies are already
training together and even creating joint command centers.In
the Ukraine, China still play a crucial role by providing Russia will
all the economic aid needed to overcome the western sanctions and
restructure the Russian economy. The Chinese have now officially declared that.
It is both ironic and beautiful that after decades of Russian fears
that China might try to conquer Siberia (even Solzhenitsyn shared these
fears) Putin and Xi have found a much more intelligent solution - Russia
will sell Siberia's riches to China while China will protect Russia
from the West. Again, this is truly a historic development whose
importance cannot be overstated.

By Larchmonter

Saker blog asked me if I could provide an article regarding China and Russia.
I told him that I thought the entwining of the two was far deeper and
meaningful than 'deals' for commodities and weapons. He added that the
two militaries had gone through highly unique, for the two nations,
training and had scheduled more for next year to push their integration
capabilities.

I felt that what I had learned studying China for over a dozen years,
the relationship was qualitatively unique in international history, far
from just a special partnership category. There was a bonding in
process. Double Helix was, to my mind, an ideal metaphor. Thus, the
article became a large presentation. But the two nations are two of the
largest and the bonding in process is comprehensive. To give it light,
it took length and some depth.

One other note, I could have added another 20-30 footnotes, but it is
another purpose of the philosophy of the Vineyard, as Saker has
expressed, for the visitors, readers, commenters and participants do
research of their own, contribute material and facts dug up and shared.
In other words, one voice does not make anything authoritative and
final. I agree. In the spirit of Orthodox practice, challenge whatever
you find in error or doubt.

I found it best to read in pdf on my iPad. Merry Christmas, Happy
Holidays and remember to donate to the Saker. He uses most of 18 hours a
day of nearly every day to make this blog work for you. The Vineyard is
our megaphone and resource in the resistance to hegemony and the
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Larchmonter

- Some people enjoy having the Big Picture
laid out in front of them—the biggest
possible—on what is happening in the world
at large, and I am happy to oblige. The
largest development of 2014 is, very
broadly, this: the Anglo-imperialists are
finally being forced out of Eurasia. How can
we tell? Well, here is the Big Picture—the
biggest I could find. I found it thanks to
Nikolai Starikov and
a recent article of his.

Now, let's first define our terms. By
Anglo-imperialists I mean the combination of
Britain and the United States. The latter
took over for the former as it failed,
turning it into a protectorate. Now the
latter is failing too, and there are no new
up-and-coming Anglo-imperialists to take
over for it. But throughout this process
their common playbook had remained the same:
pseudoliberal pseudocapitalism for the
insiders and military domination and
economic exploitation for everyone else.
Much more specifically, their playbook
always called for a certain strategem to be
executed whenever their plans to dominate
and exploit any given country finally fail.
On their way out, they do what they can to
compromise and weaken the entity they leave
behind, by inflicting a permanently oozing
and festering political wound. “Poison all
the wells” is the last thing on their
pre-departure checklist.

• When the British got tossed out of their
American Colonies, they did all they could,
using a combination of import preferences
and British “soft power,” to bolster the
plantation economy of the American South,
helping set it up as a sort of anti-United
States, and the eventual result was the
American Civil War.(The British funded the Southern Confederates, along with British mercenaries and military advisers.....their point man being Judah P Benjamin, the Confederate War minister who escaped to the UK after the civil war...which claimed the lives of 600,000 people or 2% of the entire population, of the USA. You could also argue that Canada was also set up as an anti-America by the British colonials, to the point where every President from Lincoln onwards contemplated the invasion and occupation of Canada, with military plans for such action existing into the 1930's)

• When the British got tossed out of
Ireland, they set up Belfast as a sort of
anti-Ireland, with much blood shed as a
result.

• When the British got tossed out of India,
they set up Pakistan, as a sort of
anti-India, precipitating a nasty hot war,
followed by a frozen conflict over Kashmir.(Jinnah the founder of Pakistan was a British agent and the Muslim League the political vehicle which created Pakistan was also set up and funded by the British as a counter weight to the emerging nationalist socialist secular Congress movement. Pakistan to this day remains an integral part of the Anglo-Zionist proxy force with its security personnel stationed in GCC countries.....its participation in the creation of the Afghan Mujaheddin (1979--1991), the Taliban (1994--2014) and 'al-CIA-duh' in Afghanistan (1996---2014) ....and its security ops using the numerous proxy Islamist organisations of the Pakistan military/ISI.......against Afghanistan, Iran, China! And of-course India.

Pakistan is a failed state.

One hopes China ceases to fund through strategic projects this Anglo-Zionst project, especially those areas related to security/military. Economic development is fine.

The BJP/RSS in India could become an anti-India should they adopt extreme ideological positions once they become comfortable in power. The Anglo-Zionsts brought them to power for this purpose with the idea that India after being armed by Israel and the USA should go to war with China and Pakistan.The Anglo-Zionists are hoping that the BJP/RSS are crazy enough ideologically, filled with manic faggots to try such a dangerous idea.)
• When the US lost China to the Communists,
they evacuated the Nationalists to Taiwan,
and set it up as a sort of anti-China, and
even gave it China's seat at the United
Nations.

The goal is always the same: if they can't
have the run of the place, they make sure
that nobody else can either, by setting up a
conflict scenario that nobody there can ever
hope to resolve. And so if you see
Anglo-imperialists going out of their way
and spending lots of money to poison the
political well somewhere in the world, you
can be sure that they are on their way out.
Simply put, they don't spend lots of money
to set up intractable problems for
themselves to solve—it's always done for the
benefit of others.

Fast-forward to 2014, and what we saw was
the Anglo-imperialist attempt to set up
Ukraine as a sort of anti-Russia. They took
a Slavic, mostly Russian-speaking country
and spent billions (that's with a “b”) of
dollars corrupting its politics to make the
Ukrainians hate the Russians. For a good
while an average Ukrainian could earn a
month's salary simply by turning up for an
anti-Russian demonstration in Kiev, and it
was said that nobody in Ukraine goes to
protests free of charge; it's all paid for
by the US State Department and associated
American NGOs. The result was what we saw
this year: a bloody coup, and a civil war
marked by numerous atrocities. Ukraine is in
the midst of economic collapse with power
plants out of coal and lights going off
everywhere, while at the same time the
Ukrainians are being drafted into the army
and indoctrinated to want to go fight
against “the Muscovites.”

But, if you notice, things didn't go quite
as planned. First, Russia succeeded in
making a nice little example of
self-determination in the form of Crimea: if
it worked for Kosovo, why can't it work for
Crimea? Oh, the Anglo-imperialist
establishment wishes to handle these things
on a case-by-case basis, and in this case it
doesn't approve? Well, that would be a
double-standard, wouldn't it? World, please
take note: when the West talks about justice
and human rights, that's just noise.

Next, the Russians provided some amount of
support, including weapons, volunteers and
humanitarian aid, to Ukraine's eastern
provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, which
declared themselves People's Republics and
successfully fought Ukraine's so-called
“anti-terrorist operation” to a stalemate
and an imperfect, precarious cease-fire.
Very significantly, Russia absolutely
refused to get involved militarily, has
withheld official recognition of these
republics, has refused to consider breaking
up Ukraine, and continues to insist on
national dialogue and a peace process even
as the bullets fly. According to Putin,
Ukraine must be maintained as “a contiguous
political space.” Thus, the Russians have
responded to the Anglo-imperialists' setting
up of an anti-Russia in the form of Ukraine
by setting up an anti-Ukraine in the form of
DPR and LPR, thereby shunting the
Anglo-imperialist attempt to provoke a war
between Ukraine and Russia into a civil war
within Ukraine.

You might also notice that the
Anglo-imperialists have been getting very,
very angry. They have been doing everything
they can to vilify Russia, comparing Putin
to Hitler and so on. This is because for
them it's all about the money, and they
didn't get what they paid for. What the
Anglo-imperialists were paying for in
corrupting Ukraine's politics was a
ring-side seat at a fight between Ukraine
and Russia. And what they got instead is a
two-legged stool at a bar-room brawl between
Eastern and Western Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine
accounts for a quarter of the Ukrainian
economy, produces most of the coal that had
formerly kept the lights on in the rest of
the country, and contains most of the
industry that had made Ukraine an
industrialized nation. Western Ukraine is
centered on the unhappy little rump of
Galicia, where the political soil is so
fertile for growing neo-Nazis. So, paying
billions to watch a bunch of Ukrainians
fight each other inconclusively while Russia
gets to play peacemaker is not what the
Anglo-imperialists wanted, and they are
absolutely livid about it. If they don't get
the war they paid for PDQ, they will simply
cut their losses, pack up and leave, and
then do what they always do, which is
pretend that the country in question doesn't
exist, which, the way things are going in
the Ukraine, it barely will.

Note that leaving, and then pretending that
a place doesn't exist, is something the
Anglo-imperialists have been doing a lot
lately. When they left Iraq, they did
succeed in setting up a sort of anti-Iraq in
the form of Iraqi Kurdistan, but that all
blew up in their face. Their attempts to set
up an anti-Syria or an anti-Libya died in
their infancy, and they don't seem to have
any plan at all with regard to Afghanistan,
unless it is to repeat every single blunder
the Soviets made there as carefully and
completely as possible.

What's more, it's starting to look like they
are about to get kicked out of Eurasia
altogether. Most of the major Eurasian
players—China, Russia, India, Iran, much of
Central Asia—are cementing their ties around
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to
which the United States isn't even admitted
as an observer. .As for the European Union,
the current crop of EU politicians is very
much bought and will be paid for upon
retirement by the Anglo-imperialists, but
the only reason they are still in power is
that there are lots of older voters in
Western Europe, and older people tend to
cling to what they know even after it stops
working—for them or, especially, for their
kids. If it was up to the young people, the
Anglo-imperialists would face open
rebellion. In fact, the trends in voting
patterns show that their departure from the
region is a matter of time.

Here is a preview of possible coming
attractions. On their way out, the
Anglo-imperialists will of course try to set
up an anti-Europe, and the obvious choice
for that is Britain. Of all the European
nations, it is the most heavily manipulated
by their Anglo cousins from across the pond.
It would take minimal effort for them to
hurt Britain economically, then launch a
propaganda campaign to redirect the blame
for the bad economy toward the continent.
They wouldn't even have to hire translators
for their propaganda—a simple
“spelling-chequer” (or whatever) would
suffice. And so, to make sure that their
efforts to provoke a large-scale, hugely
destructive, festering conflict between
Britain and Europe fail, Europe would do
well to set up an anti-Britain within
Britain.

And the obvious choice for an anti-Britain
is of course Scotland, where the recent
independence referendum failed because of...
the recalcitrance of older voters. A
dividing line between the Anglo empire and
Eurasia running through the English
Channel/La Manche would be a disaster for
Europe and moving it somewhere west of
Bermuda would pose a formidable challenge.
On the other hand, suppose that line ran
along Hadrian's Wall, with the traditionally
combative and ornery Scots, armed with the
remnants of North Sea oil and gas, aligning
themselves with the Continent, while England
remains an ever-so-obedient vassal of the
Anglo-imperialists? That would reduce the
intercontinental conflict to what Americans
like to call a “pissing contest”: not worth
the high price of admission. Yes, there
would be some strong words between the two
sides, and some shoving and shouting outside
of pubs, and even some black eyes and loose
teeth should diplomacy fail, but that should
be the extent of the damage. That I see as
the best-case outcome.

So that's the big picture I see heading into
2015, which I am sure will be a most
tumultuous year. Not to make a prediction as
to timing (don't worry, you won't ever get
one out of me!) but 2015 could be the year
the Anglo-imperialist franchise finally
starts shutting down in obvious ways. We
know it will have to shut down eventually,
because failing all the time is not
conducive to its survival. The bonus
question is, what sort of anti-America will
these parasites set up inside America before
they abandon their host and scatter to their
fortified compounds in undisclosed locations
around the world? Or will they not even
bother, and just provoke a war of all
against all?

I would think that they would at least try
to leverage their expensively engineered
red/blue divide within the United States.
This fake cultural/political divide, with
all the pseudoliberal/pseudoconservative
indoctrination and university- and
church-based brainwashing that put it in
place, cost them a pretty penny. It was
engineered to produce the appearance of
choice at election-time while making sure
that there isn't any. But could it not be
pressed into service in some more extreme
manner? How about leveraging it to organize
some sort of rabidly homophobic racist
fundamentalist separatist enclave somewhere
down south? Or perhaps one somewhere in the
north, where zoophilia is de rigeur
while heterosexual intercourse requires a
special permit from a committee stocked with
graduates in women's studies? Now, fight,
you idiots! Don't you see how well that
could work in practice? Would they waste
such a nice opportunity to set up a system
of controlled mayhem? I think not!

I leave all of that up to you to imagine.

Happy New Year!_________________________________ Dmitry
Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and a
writer on subjects related to "potential
economic, ecological and political decline
and collapse in the United States,"
something he has called “permanent crisis”.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com

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.It is clear that Jewish leadership through the USA, Jewish shekels, rap music, hip-hop, endless war, Jewish paedophilia, Kab-allah and satanic worship....and crisis management is not what the world needs or wants.The World needs the just, balanced leadership of CHINA.

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The Outlook for the
New Year

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By Paul Craig Roberts at Information Clearing House.. - Washington has shaped 2015 to be a year of
conflict. The conflict could be intense.. Washington is the cause of
the conflict, which has been brewing for
some time. Russia was too weak to do
anything about it when the Clinton regime
pushed NATO to Russia’s borders and
illegally attacked Yugoslavia, breaking the
country into small easily controlled pieces.
Russia was also too weak to do anything
about it when the George W. Bush regime
withdrew from the ABM treaty and undertook
to locate anti-ballistic missile bases on
Russia’s borders. Washington lied to Moscow
that the purpose of the ABM bases is to
protect Europe from non-existent Iranian
nuclear ICBMs. However, Moscow understood
that the purpose of the ABM bases is to
degrade Russia’s nuclear deterrent, thereby
enhancing Washington’s ability to coerce
Russia into agreements that compromise
Russian sovereignty..By summer 2008 Russian
power had returned. On Washington’s orders,
the US and Israeli trained and equipped
Georgian army attacked the breakaway
republic of South Ossetia during the early
hours of August 8, killing Russian
peacekeepers and civilian population. Units
of the Russian military instantly responded
and within a few hours the American trained
and equipped Georgian army was routed and
defeated. Georgia was in Russia’s hands
again, where the province had resided during
the 19th and 20th centuries..Putin should have ousted
Mikheil Saakashvili, the American puppet
installed as president of Georgia by the
Washington-instigated “Rose Revolution”, and
reincorporated Georgia into the Russian
Federation. Instead, in a strategic error,
Russia withdrew its forces, leaving
Washington’s puppet regime in place to cause
future trouble for Russia. Washington is
pushing hard to incorporate Georgia into
NATO, thus adding more US military bases on
Russia’s border. However, at the time,
Moscow thought Europe to be more independent
of Washington than it is and relied on good
relations with Europe to keep American bases
out of Georgia.. Today the Russian
government no longer has any illusion that
Europe is capable of an independent foreign
policy. Russian President Vladimir Putin has
stated publicly that Russia has learned that
diplomacy with Europe is pointless, because
European politicians represent Washington’s
interest, not Europe’s. Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov recently acknowledged that
Europe’s Captive Nation status has made it
clear to Russia that Russian goodwill
gestures are unable to produce diplomatic
results.. With Moscow’s delusion
shattered that diplomacy with the West can
produce peaceful solutions, reality has set
in, reinforced by the demonization of
Vladimir Putin by Washington and its vassal
states. Hillary Clinton called Putin the new
Hitler. While Washington incorporates former
constituent parts of the Russian and Soviet
empires into its own empire and bombs seven
countries, Washington claims that Putin is
militarily aggressive and intends to
reconstitute the Soviet empire. Washington
arms the neo-nazi regime Obama established
in Ukraine, while erroneously claiming that
Putin has invaded and annexed Ukrainian
provinces. All of these blatant lies are
echoed repeatedly by the Western
presstitutes. Not even Hitler had such a
compliant media as Washington has..Every diplomatic effort by
Russia has been blocked by Washington and
has come to naught. So now Russia has been
forced by reality to update its military
doctrine. The new doctrine approved on
December 26 states that the US and NATO
comprise a major military threat to the
existence of Russia as a sovereign
independent country.. The Russian document cites
Washington’s war doctrine of pre-emptive
nuclear attack, deployment of anti-ballistic
missiles, buildup of NATO forces, and intent
to deploy weapons in space as clear
indications that Washington is preparing to
attack Russia..Washington is also
conducting economic and political warfare
against Russia, attempting to destabilize
the economy with economic sanctions and
attacks on the ruble. The Russian document
acknowledges that Russia faces Western
threats of regime change achieved through
“actions aimed at violent change of the
Russian constitutional order,
destabilization of the political and social
environment, and disorganization of the
functioning of governmental bodies, crucial
civilian and military facilities and
informational infrastructure of Russia.”
Foreign financed NGOs and foreign owned
Russian media are tools in Washington’s
hands for destabilizing Russia..Washington’s reckless
aggressive policy against Russia has
resurrected the nuclear arms race. Russia is
developing two new ICBM systems and in 2016
will deploy a weapons system designed to
negate the US anti-ballistic missile system.
In short, the evil warmongers that rule in
Washington have set the world on the path to
nuclear armageddon.. The Russian and Chinese
governments both understand that their
existence is threatened by Washington’s
hegemonic ambitions. Larchmonter reports
that in order to defeat Washington’s plans
to marginalize both countries, the Russian
and Chinese governments have decided to
unify their economies into one and to
conjoin their military commands. Henceforth,
Russia and China move together on the
economic and military fronts.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/08rzue8ffism94t/China-Russia_Double_Helix.docx The unity of the Bear and
the Dragon reduces the crazed
neoconservatives’ dream of “an American
century” to dangerous nonsense. As
Larchmonter puts it, “The US and NATO would
need Michael the Archangel to defeat
China-Russia, and from all signs Michael the
Archangel is aligned with the Bear and its
Orthodox culture. There is no weapon, no
strategy, no tactic conceivable in the near
future to damage either of these rising
economies now that they are ‘base pairs.’”. Larchmonter sees hope in
the new geopolitics created by the
conjoining of Russia and China. I don’t
dispute this, but if the arrogant
neoconservatives realize that their
hegemonic policy has created a foe over
which Washington cannot prevail, they will
push for a pre-emptive nuclear strike before
the Russian-Chinese unified command is fully
operational. To forestall a sneak attack,
Russia and China should operate on full
nuclear alert.. The US economy–indeed the
entire Western orientated economy from Japan
to Europe–is a house of cards. Since the
economic downturn began seven years ago, the
entirety of Western economic policy has been
diverted to the support of a few over-sized
banks, sovereign debt, and the US dollar.
Consequently, the economies themselves and
the ability of populations to cope have
deteriorated.. The financial markets are
based on manipulation, not on fundamentals.
The manipulation is untenable. With debt
exploding, negative real interest rates make
no sense. With real consumer incomes, real
consumer credit, and real retail sales
stagnant or falling, the stock market is a
bubble. With Russia, China, and other
countries moving away from the use of the
dollar to settle international accounts,
with Russia developing an alternative to the
SWIFT financial network, the BRICS
developing alternatives to the IMF and World
Bank, and with other parts of the world
developing their own credit card and
Internet systems, the US dollar, along with
the Japanese and European currencies that
are being printed in order to support the
dollar’s exchange value, could experience a
dramatic drop in exchange value, which would
make the import-dependent Western world
dysfunctional..In my opinion, it took the
Russians and Chinese too long to comprehend
the evil that has control in Washington.
Therefore, both countries risk nuclear
attack prior to the full operational
capability of their conjoined defense. As
the Western economy is a house of cards,
Russia and China could collapse the Western
economy before the neoconservatives can
drive the world to war. As Washington’s
aggression against both countries is crystal
clear, Russia and China have every right to
the following defensive measures.. As the US and EU are
conducting economic warfare against Russia,
Russia could claim that by wrecking the
Russian economy the West has deprived Russia
of the ability to repay loans to the
European banks. If this does not bring down
the thinly capitalized EU banks, Russia can
announce that as NATO countries are now
officially recognized by Russian war
doctrine as an enemy of the Russian state,
Russia can no longer support NATO’s
aggression against Russia by selling natural
gas to NATO members. If the shutdown of much
of European industry, rapidly rising rates
of unemployment, and bank failures do not
result in the dissolution of NATO and thus
the end of the threat, the Chinese can act.. The Chinese hold a very
large amount of dollar-denominated financial
assets. Just as the Federal Reserve’s
agents, the bullion banks, dump massive
shorts onto the bullion futures markets
during periods of little activity in order
to drive down the bullion price, China can
dump the equivalent in US Treasuries of
years of Quantitative Easing in a few
minutes. If the Federal Reserve quickly
creates dollars with which to purchase the
enormous quantity of Treasuries so that the
financial house of cards does not implode,
the Chinese can then dump the dollars that
they are paid for the bonds in the currency
market. Whereas the Federal Reserve can
print dollars with which to purchase the
Treasuries, the Fed cannot print foreign
currencies with which to buy the dollars. . The dollar would collapse,
and with it the power of the Hegemon. The
war would be over without a shot or missile
fired..In my view, Russia and
China owe it to the world to prevent the
nuclear war intended by the neoconservatives
simply by replying in kind to Washington’s
economic warfare. Russia and China hold all
the cards. Not Washington.. Russia and China should
give no warning. They should just act.
Indeed, instead of step by step, Russia and
China could simultaneously use the
counter-measures. With four US banks holding
derivatives totaling many times world GDP,
the financial explosion would be the
equivalent to a nuclear one. The US and
Europe would be finished, and the world
would be saved..Larchmonter possibly is
correct. 2015 could be a very good year, but
pre-emptive economic moves by Moscow and
Beijing could be required. Putin’s current
plan seems to be to turn away from the West,
ignore the provocations, and mesh Russia’s
strategic and economic interests with those
of Asia. This is a humane and reasonable
course of action, but it leaves the West
untroubled and undistracted by its economic
vulnerabilities. An untroubled West remains
a grave danger not only to Russia and China
but also to Americans and the entire world.________________________________ Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Economic Policy and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service,
and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and
Economic Dissolution of the West and
How America Was Lost.

30.12.14

Benefits of Doing Business in India

For companies and executives from Western economies there are many
benefits of doing business in India when compared to other Asian or
emerging country alternatives.

With a 5,000 year heritage of welcoming foreigners to its shores,
India welcomes diversity. America, Americans and American brands are
well liked and popular in India while Europeans and Asians are also
readily accepted.

India is a free society and Websites, movies and music from other
cultures is not censored or limited, with the exception of pornographic
or extremely seditious materials.

Investing into India and repatriating profits or other gains is
generally quite straightforward. Foreign companies can readily raise
equity capital in India and many foreign companies have subsidiaries
traded on Indian stock exchanges.

India’s location can make it a good strategic alternative to China
for manufacturing and shipping to Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast
Asia. Honeywell manufactures turbochargers in Pune, and Hyundai makes
automobiles in Chennai for the African and European market.

India’s engineers and managers travel well globally. GE, Google, CA,
Mastercard, Reebok and many others have transplanted managers first
hired in India into corporate headquarters and worldwide leadership
positions. India’s talent is a tremendous asset.

You will readily find people who speak English and you can buy
English language books and magazines in all major Indian cities and
airports. If you speak a major European language such as Spanish,
German, or French, you will also find speakers of these languages in
major Indian cities, thanks to organizations such as Max Mueller Bhavan
and Alliance Francaise and also due to India’s booming global call
center business.

India’s young population and growing economic power promises to be a magnet for foreign companies for decades to come.

Advantage India

World's largest democracy with 1.2 billion people.

Stable political environment and responsive administrative set up.

Well established judiciary to enforce rule of law.

Land of abundant natural resources and diverse climatic conditions.

India's growth will start to outpace China's within three to
five years and hence will become the fastest large economy with 9-10 per
cent growth over the next 20-25 years (Morgan Stanley).

Investor friendly policies and incentive based schemes.

India's economy will grow fivefold in the next 20 years (McKinsey).

Cost competitiveness; low labour costs.

Total labour force of nearly 530 million.

Large pool of skilled manpower; strong knowledge base with significant English speaking population.

Young country with a median age of 30 years by 2025: India's economy will benefit from this "demographic dividend".

The proportion of population in the working age group (15-59
years) is likely to increase from approximately 58 per cent in 2001 to
more than 64 per cent by 2021.

Huge untapped market potential.

The urban population of India will double from the 2001 census figure of 290 m to approximately 590 m by 2030 (McKinsey).

Progressive simplification and rationalization of direct and indirect tax structures.

Reduction in import tariffs.

Full current account convertibility.

India is member of WTO.

Robust banking and financial institutions.

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India, South Korea shore up strategic ties

By Times of India and PTI

In
boost to their strategic ties, India and South Korea on Monday decided
to enhance cooperation in sectors like shipbuilding, electronics,
defence production, infrastructure and energy besides outlining mutual
interest in areas of nuclear energy and cyber security.

In the
eighth joint commission meeting, external affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and her South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se deliberated on all
aspects of the bilateral ties with a view to "chart out a road map" to
further deepen engagement.

"They agreed that development of
cooperation in the field of defence equipment and technology, as well
as, sectors like shipbuilding, electronics, IT, energy and
infrastructure held considerable possibilities

"They reiterated
mutual interest in deepening cooperation in the areas of civil nuclear
energy and cyber security," the ministry of external affairs said.

In her address, Swaraj called South Korea an important partner for
India's economic growth and invited South Korean companies to make "bold
investments" and benefit from the "Make in India" initiative of the
government.

She said South Korea and South Korean companies
occupy a strategic place in India's "Act East" initiative and that there
was huge scope for greater investment in the country, particularly in
the manufacturing sector.

"We invite Korean companies to build
on their success in India and make bold investments to benefit from my
government's focus on 'Make in India' which is aimed at providing
necessary policy and other incentives to encourage manufacturing in
India," she said.

Yun welcomed the initiatives taken by India
and agreed to encourage the South Korean industry to engage with India
even "more closely".

In the meeting, there was agreement on the
considerable potential for further expanding bilateral economic and
investment cooperation.

The South Korean side reiterated a
cordial invitation for an early official visit of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to the country.

Swaraj welcomed the invitation
adding that both sides will work closely to ensure a productive and
successful visit of Modi at a mutually convenient early date.

The two ministers exchanged views on global and regional developments
and agreed to step-up exchanges between officials and academics of the
two sides.

Swaraj also called on South Korean President Park
Geun-hye and held meetings with the minister of trade, industry and
energy and the national security adviser.

In her address,
Swaraj sought steps to boost trade ties to realise the target of $40
billion bilateral annual trade by next year and said South Korean
companies like Hyundai, Samsung and LG have become household names in
India.

"My government attaches importance to relations with
Republic of Korea. We see you as an important partner for our economic
growth. Korea and Korean companies occupy a strategic place in India's
'Act East' initiative," she said.

Currently 300 South Korean companies have invested approximately USD 3 billion and have employed nearly 40,000 people in India.(Peanuts---need more investment from South Korea, and maybe they can teach India to play baseball, instead of cricket???)

The current bilateral annual trade between the two countries is about
USD 16 billion. Indian companies have invested around USD 2 billion in
South Korea and some of the leading names who acquired South Korean
companies are Tatas, Mahindra and Aditya Birla Group.

"We would
like to see a new form of connectivity between our two countries
through cross-border production networks," the external affairs minister
said.

"We need to work together to realize the fuller
potential of bilateral trade. We had set a target of USD 40 billion by
2015. To achieve this target, our companies need to take full advantage
of our economic complementarities and leverage the Comprehensive
Economic Partnership Agreement," she said.

India-South Korea
joint commission for bilateral cooperation was established in February
1996, which is chaired by the external affairs minister and the minister
of foreign affairs from the South Korean side.

27.12.14

China Steps In as World's New Bank

Thanks to China, Christine Lagarde
of the International Monetary Fund, Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank and
Takehiko Nakao of the Asian Development Bank may no longer have much
meaningful work to do.. Beijing's move to bail out Russia,
on top of its recent aid for Venezuela and Argentina, signals the death
of the post-war Bretton Woods world. It’s also marks the beginning of
the end for America's linchpin role in the global economy and Japan's
influence in Asia.. What is China's new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank if
not an ADB killer? If Japan, ADB's main benefactor, won't share the
presidency with Asian peers, Beijing will just use its deep pockets to
overpower it. Lagarde's and Kim’s shops also are looking at a future in
which crisis-wracked governments call Beijing before Washington. . China stepping up its role as lender of last resort upends an
economic development game that's been decades in the making. The IMF,
World Bank and ADB are
bloated, change-adverse institutions. When Ukraine received a $17
billion IMF-led bailout this year it was about shoring up a
geopolitically important economy, not geopolitical blackmail.. Chinese President Xi Jinping's
government doesn't care about upgrading economies, the health of tax
regimes or central bank reserves. It cares about loyalty. The quid pro
quo: For our generous assistance we expect your full support on
everything from Taiwan to territorial disputes to deadening the West’s
pesky focus on human rights.. This may sound hyperbolic; Russia, Argentina and Venezuela are already at odds with the U.S. and its allies. But what about Europe?
In 2011 and 2012, it looked to Beijing to save euro bond markets
through massive purchases. Expect more of this dynamic in 2015 should
fresh turmoil hit the euro zone, at which time Beijing will expect
European leaders to pull their diplomatic punches. What happens if the
Federal Reserve’s tapering slams economies from India to Indonesia and
governments look to China for help? Why would Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam bother with the IMF’s conditions when China writes big checks with few strings attached?. Beijing’s $24 billion currency swap program to help Russia is a sign
of things to come. Russia, it's often said, is too nuclear to fail. As Moscow weathers
the worst crisis since the 1998 default, it’s tempting to view China as
a good global citizen. But Beijing is just enabling President Vladimir
Putin, who’s now under zero pressure to diversify his economy away from
oil. The same goes for China’s $2.3 billion currency swap with Argentina
and its $4 billion loan to Venezuela. In the Chinese century, bad
behavior has its rewards..There's plenty to worry about as China tosses money
at rogue governments like Sudan and Zimbabwe. But there’s also lots at
stake for Asia's budding democracies. The so-called Washington consensus
on economic policies isn't perfect, but is Beijing's model of
autocratic state capitalism with scant press freedom really a better
option? With China becoming Asia's sugar daddy, the temptation in, say, Myanmar might be to avoid the difficult process of creating credible institutions to oversee the economy. (Just like the USA's federal institutions)

24.12.14

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.America tells India that the USA will make India into a superpower.....and then proceeds to without an iota of irony and hypocrisy, actively fund, arm and support the live border foe of India, Pakistan and its security apparatus to the tune of billions of $.The notorious ISI is funded by the USA........through which the 'al-CIA-duh' hologram was created.The idea that the USA will make India into a great power is ludicrous, given the Neocon/Zionist written PNAC 2000 policy paper. Full Spectrum Dominance for the Jew, and no rivals to the USA accepted.....except China (The Rothschilds little hobby horse....AN ISSUE with which I have no problems, SINCERELY IF THINGS keep developing out of China as they do presently......"a RESPONSIBLE ASIAN SUPER=POWER" that helps Developing nations, and maintains the primacy of International Law, UPHOLDS 21st century international business norms........AND is an alternative viable center of power which developing nations especially can turn to for assistance) What has the USA done for India except dump mountains of surplus food from the 1950--1990's as aid.Participated in no strategic projects in the country.......arms and munitions factories, power plants, chemical plants, machine tools, metal works, iron and steel mills, heavy engineering.Bumping off of high profile scientists in India, and enticing--SIPHONING off of 50,000 of the brightest and best engineers and scientists to work in the backroom of the USA.Terrorism in India with Israel/Pakistan and RSS elements.Buying elements of the media in India including Bollywood.People constantly talk about American jobs off-shored to China and India. But the figures speak differently for the latter country.Indian trade with the USA is a poultry $70 billion for 2014.........whereas China/USA trade is worth over $600 billion. And where are the millions of jobs off-shored in IT from the USA to India.....VERY LITTLE:i) Major items of export from India to USSelect major items with their percentage shares, are given below.a) Textiles (15.7%) b) Precious stones & metals (20.9%) c) Mineral Fuel, Oil (10.9%) d) Pharmaceutical products (10.8%) e) Organic chemicals (4.9%) f) Machinery (4.9%) g) Electrical Machinery (3%) h) Lac, Gum, Resins (2.9%)
ii) Major items of export from US to India

Select major items with their percentage shares, are given belowa) Precious stones & metals (24.4%) b) Aircraft, spacecraft, Parts (12%) c) Machinery (9.8%) d) Electrical machinery (6.5%) e) Mineral Fuel, Oil etc (6.3%) f) Optical instruments & equipment (6%) h) Organic chemicals (3.4%) g) Plastic Products (3.2%) India's very small trade volume of about $340 billion exports of 2014, is not made up of huge numbers of jobs off-shored from the USA.......in IT, and call centers. In the Silicon Valley 34% of the workers are Indian.......where the USA sucks in expertise from India, AND not India sucking out jobs from the USA.But the MAIN POINT which is being made is that without any serious assistance to the Indian economy and trade with the USA, the USA feels it has the right to express displeasure against India for signing MUCH NEEDED AND VERY IMPORTANT FOR INDIA strategic agreements with Russia worth $100 billion recently. The USA feels entitled to many things.....no doubt as the exceptional nation, but this takes the cake.The USA on the orders of the London based Rothschilds is silent on the 10 times bigger and of more significance, Russo-China trade agreements covering gas and oil. Or the even more significant currency swap agreements between both the countries.....in their local currency. Defacto a step in the merging of the two economies...where the Chinese economy leads.For India to OBEY and jump how high sir, the USA will have to do a lot more then MERE lecture condescendingly in a racist double standard way to India. Faggot right-wing Modi comes from the premiere business state in India. Modi was a child-businessman before he became a political fascist apparatchik, and then a politician:"I
think pro-business mentality comes to Gujaratis from way long before
even Europeans or Mughals invaded India. One reason for that is its
geographical presence,it is a state of a shape in peninsula over Arabian
ocean which has largest coast in India and had shortest sea route to
Arab countries, Africa and Europe. The trade between India and other geographical areas mentioned had been in existence over a long long time, until Mughal
countries started war in Arabian sea against Europeans (He means the Turkic Ottomans....and the Turkic Mughals). Thats why they
had to find a new way to India (It is also an unverified story of Vasco
d' gama meeting a Gujarati trader 'kanha' in Africa and followed him to
India.) Back in time there might be huge population of traders who did
business with other countries through Arabian sea from Gujarat that have
created huge business minded population and grew sense of trading.
(Don't believe me? Notice the power of a Gujarati to bargain price in
the market next time.)"

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Antwerp: Where Gujjus beat Jews

If there is one place where the legendary business acumen of
Jews and Gujaratis clashes,it is Antwerps diamond trading hub.And so
far,Gujaratis have come up trumps,says Melvyn Thomas

When a
small-time diamond merchant from Palanpur,Mafatlal Mohanbhai Mehta,left
the Indian shores for Antwerp in Belgium in 1959,little did he knew that
the Gujarati community would one day dominate the diamond business in
this foreign land.At 21,Mehta had a knack for sniffing out new business
opportunities.In Belgium,the Jews had monopolised the diamond
trade.Mehta got into their good books and soon set up two companies..Today,five
decades later,the Mehtas and Shahs of the diamond industry control more
than 75 per cent of the $42 billion annual diamond trade in Antwerp. In
fact,if you bump into someone in Antwerp,there is a very good
possibility that he is either a Shah or a Mehta.Today,Gujaratis are also
making their presence felt in the diamond hubs of Tel Aviv and New
York.

Thirty years ago,opening a diamond trading office in Antwerp was a
must for each of the big diamond company owners in
India.Gradually,following the footsteps of the Palanpuri
Jains,Kathiawaris from Saurashtra too opened their trading offices in
Antwerp.In the last few years,Kathiawaris have established a strong
foothold here,with 65 per cent of the Gujarati traders being from the
community now.Kathiawaris are becoming a formidable force in the
Antwerp diamond market, says Ashit Mehta,chairman of the $1 billion-plus
Arjav Diamonds NV,one of the top three diamond companies in Antwerp.But
it is still Gujaratis ruling the market. Mehta is also the board member
of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC).Many Jews,who traded
diamonds in the public hall of Antwerps imposing Diamond Beurs are so
worried about the new competitive pressure that they now prefer to meet
clients in the privacy of their offices for fear that Indians will poach
their remaining business.Some 25 years ago,Antwerp had than 30,000
diamond cutters and polishers.But now,the number has dropped to only
1,000 as most of the manufacturing has moved to Surat.According to
Mehta,whatever Palanpuri Jains are today in Antwerp is only due to their
visionaries,who had set up their shops decades ago.Now,it is our
responsibility to preserve our position so that our next generation can
take the trade to higher levels.. Once upon a time,the British ruled
our land.Today,Palanpuri Jains and Kathiawaris rule the diamond trade in
Antwerp.Being a professional attached to the diamond industry for the
last 25 years,I am proud that Indians are the bosses of the
international diamond trade, says KK Sharma,executive director of Indian
Diamond Institute.
_______________________________________Among the examples of Indian-American
success, the book notes that of all the ethnic groups that the Census
Bureau tracks, Indian-Americans have the highest median household income
— $90,500 — compared with $51,200 for the United States as a whole.....You get the picture: Indian-Americans are doing awesome...............
In fact, an eye-popping 44 percent of Indian-American households have
incomes exceeding $100,000, compared with 21 percent for the entire
country.

India needs a MFN status with the USA that bypasses the Rothschild of London.

India requires the lifting of trade quotas which are more SEVERE than those between MANY MANY MANY other USA partner countries.

India requires technology transfer agreements from the USA that is significant and verifiable.

The ditching of gimmicky slogans which constantly pronounce how special the relationship between the two countries are.

Greater respect for Indian public figures in the USA, when they come visiting for cultural events. Rather than being singled out, like no other country on the orders of the Rothschilds of London......ditto Australia in the past.

The Rothschilds are entitled to love another country MORE than the country they live in, and which allows them to enriches themselves....I like easy listening music, some movies, pizza, beautiful women, lounging and Pan Iranism. But my likes are not used as battering rams against something else to profess my love for the above....let me get into a 12 year world explanation mode if I may. Example 1: I like pizza therefore I must profess my hatred to the world about hamburgers, or tacos....the supposed rival of the pizza in the fast food industry to emphasize my love for the pizza. Example 2: I like Chelsea FC but I hate Man U, the premier League rival, and therefore I must attack Man U fans when they come to Rothschild run London to profess my tribal soccer loyalty. This is both Neanderthal and puerile. No Sane State must build their complex state policies on such whimsical puerile peccadilloes of the London elite.

The opportunity to discuss the above, away from yet more empty symbolism can be achieved when the two faggots meet in January 2015
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US “troubled” over slew of deals during Putin-Modi summit

The outcome of the recent summit between Russian President Vladimir
Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi gave an
all-embracing boost to the strategic partnership between Russia and
India. A total of 20 agreements, including in the key fields of defence,
nuclear energy and oil and gas were signed during the summit. All these
deals are long-term in nature.

According to the media reports, during the summit, the two sides signed
$100 billion worth of commercial deals, including $40 billion in nuclear
energy, $50 billion in oil and gas and $10 billion in the fields of defence,
fertilizers, space and diamonds. A Joint Statement for strengthening the
Indo-Russian friendship over the next decade was also signed.. While the unprecedented success achieved by the two sides during the summit was
welcomed by Putin and Modi, at their joint press conference, it provoked US to
issue angry statements, disapproving the further strengthening of Russia-India
bilateral ties. It was not only upset over India’s move to sign a slew of
agreements with Russia, but also strongly objected to the presence of Crimea’s
Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov in Putin’s delegation. It may be recalled,
Aksenov had been included in the list of sanctions of the US, EU and Canada.

Washington took the Indian move, as a challenge to its so-called “global
authority” at a time when it was coercing the European Union (EU) and other
countries into tightening a series of sanctions against Moscow following the
Ukrainian crisis and reunification of Crimea Republic with Russia in a
referendum earlier this year. Pro-West Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko,
who was on a visit to Sydney, also did not lose time to condemn the Indian move
to welcome Aksenov in India.. With their eyes on defence and nuclear energy deals, the US and other
Western leaders have been trying to woo the new Indian Prime Minister for
closer cooperation in these fields. Washington wanted to capture India’s
defence and nuclear energy market. It recently dislodged Russia from top
position in supplying arms, but so far failed to get any nuclear reactors
deals. During their talks, in New Delhi, Putin and Modi decided to speed up the
implementation of defence and nuclear energy cooperation programmes between the
two countries. The US fears that their decision to increase bilateral
cooperation in these spheres may make it lose the Indian market to Russia.. “Even as India’s options have increased today, Russia will remain our most
important defence partner,” Modi said in his press statement after talks with
Putin. He also referred to nuclear energy cooperation, in addition, to four
reactors to be built at Kudankulam. “Today we have outlined an ambitious vision
for nuclear energy of at least ten more reactors. It will have the highest
standards of safety in the world. It will also include manufacture of equipment
and components in India.”

Reacting over the Indo-Russian deals in defence and nuclear energy fields
and inclusion of Aksenov in Putin’s delegation to India, in Washington, the US
Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: “It’s not time for business as usual
with Russia. We have conveyed this, certainly, to our allies and to our
partners across the world.” She also said that the US was “troubled” by reports
that the delegation accompanying Putin included Aksenov and sought
clarifications on the matter from New Delhi.. Since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, India has refused to back
sanctions against Russia by the West. On the eve of the India-Russia summit,
the External Affairs Ministry in a statement reiterated that New Delhi could
never be a party to any sanctions against Moscow. The Joint Secretary (Eurasia)
in the Ministry, Ajay Bisaria said the Indo-Russian ties are characterized by
“special and privileged strategic partnership” and India considered the
Ukrainian crisis as the former Soviet Republic’s internal problem.. The Joint Statement
issued by Putin and Modi also said, “India and Russia oppose economic sanctions
that do not have the approval of the United Nations Security Council.”

In this connection, the trip by Aksenov to India could negatively affect “the
friendly relations” established recently by Modi with US President Barack Obama
during his visit to Washington, in September. Modi has already invited Obama to
be the chief guest on the India’s Republic Day on January 26. Analysts said the controversy could overshadow Obama’s visit.. During his visit to Mumbai, Aksenov signed a MoU between Crimean Republic
and Gul Kripalani, chairman of the Indian business group Indian-Crimean
Partnership. After signing the document, he said that the MoU is an “important
milestone” in the development of bilateral relations between Russia and India.. Aksenov
organized a paramilitary force on the Crimean Peninsula early this year as
pro-Western protests grew in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. He was one of the
first people to be singled out by the United States for sanctions. The symbolic
show of support has put New Delhi in the middle of one of the bitterest
disputes between Moscow and the West.. After his
return, Aksenov told reporters in Simferopol that US State Department’s
spokeswoman’s statements against his trip to India, “have not brought any
results” to the US representative.

“During the trip, this country’s leadership achieved the objectives
it had. With the Indians, we discussed various business topics and we share an
understanding on how to proceed with the implementation of projects. For
further cooperation, we have invited to Crimea representatives of India’s
businesses,” he said.. Russian State Duma, the lower house, International Affairs Committee
chairman Alexei Pushkov said the US call on other countries not to have
dealings with Russia was absurd. "The US has called on all countries of
the world not to conduct business with Russia. I think this call won't be heard
outside the US’ close allies. It is absurd," Pushkov said.. The Indian
External Affairs Ministry has so far not officially commented on the attack
from the US and Ukraine over the issue. Observers
said it’s too early to forecast how India might react to the pressure from the
US regarding its bilateral relationship with Russia.

About Me

I have been under state surveillance and covert harassment in the UK since 1985, by MI-5 and their gullible friends where ever they are found, and overt harassment with surveillance since march of 1996, when I submitted my final year law degree dissertation, 'The relationship between the state, the security services and the law'.